Ted Cruz offers up a reverse racism Supreme Court hot take and gets battered in the responses

Sen. Ted Cruz has a YouTube channel called The Verdict with Ted Cruz. Without doing much research, one can imagine what kinds of “verdicts” Cruz pontificates on during his show. The essence of …

Biden, Democrats want to start fixing the care crisis in Build Back Better

There are about 800,000 people, elderly and disabled, who qualify for subsidized home care on waiting lists to get that care. Some will end up in nursing homes, where they don’t need to be and where …

Texas just passed a law promoting holocaust denial, hate speech, and vaccine disinformation

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for the one-star state. In addition to gaining the cooperation of the Trump-flavored Supreme Court to strip away the rights of women, Gov. Greg Abbott has been right …

Texas governor bizarrely vows to 'eliminate rape' in barely coherent defense of abortion ban

On Tuesday, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law created by right-wing think tank fascists making voting considerably harder in the second most populated state of the Union. It is the sad end to a …

Rep. Paul Gosar delights Groypers and incels with tweet that confuses pretty much everyone else

Republican Rep. Paul Gosar. What can be said about Gosar that hasn’t been said before? He’s a crummy, bigoted, corrupt man. His brothers and sisters have actively campaigned against him for years, and …

New Jeopardy! host apologizes for offensive comments on women, Jewish people, and Haiti

Jeopardy! just hired a new host, but not one without controversy. Mike Richards, a former executive producer of the show who is set to succeed Alex Trebek as host, issued an apology to The Ringer …

Black Women's Equal Pay Day is all the evidence of systemic racism and sexism you need

Black Women’s Equal Pay Day falls on August 3 this year. That’s the day when, starting on January 1, 2020, Black women have finally been paid what white men were paid in 2020 alone. Equal Pay Day, the …

Pink offers to pay fines for Norwegian team fined for wearing shorts instead of bikini bottoms

Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Pink is not only using her voice to help advocate for other women—she’s offering to pay the fines of a Norway women’s beach handball team after they …

The Olympics has a history of racist, sexist media coverage. Will 2021 be any different?

What were supposed to be the 2020 Olympics are happening in 2021, after a brutal pandemic year. Asian Americans have faced an added trauma: rising anti-Asian hate crimes. Olympic athletes haven’t been …

Women working in local TV news say harassment from viewers gets out of hand

This story was originally published at Prism. It’s part two in a series about the harassment of women and marginalized journalists. Read part one of the series here.

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